Just found another #Youtube channel, this one showing a deep fake #Varoufakis giving #geopolitical analysis, emulating perfectly the typical English accent he speaks with.

The channel which YT says originates in Canada, exists just for one month and has only 46 subscribers. But some vids are watched up to 2.5k times.

There's no disclaimer as a "fan site", the channel is pretending to be real.

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_nbkZ9ZiFI

(link made unclickable on purpose)

#misinformation #AI

✋ Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-small-digital-frictions-misinformation.html

#misinformation #socialmedia #ux #ui #uci #media #culture

✋ Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-small-digital-frictions-misinformation.html

#misinformation #socialmedia #ux #ui #uci #media #culture

🕸️ Join us at the @w3c @w3cdevs #AuthenticWeb Workshop as part of the 🔍 Credible Web Community Group initiative on 🗓️ December 9th at 16:00 UTC!

We'll be presenting our work on Credibility Assessments and Contextual Insights 🌐 - exciting new features in dokieli that help readers assess the credibility of online content with #annotations and supplemental information via our browser extension.

Don't miss it! 👉 https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/f10ec76d-5894-49d0-892c-4cb6f8036a64/

#misinformation #credibility #factchecking #decentralization

🕸️ Join us at the @w3c @w3cdevs #AuthenticWeb Workshop as part of the 🔍 Credible Web Community Group initiative on 🗓️ December 9th at 16:00 UTC!

We'll be presenting our work on Credibility Assessments and Contextual Insights 🌐 - exciting new features in dokieli that help readers assess the credibility of online content with #annotations and supplemental information via our browser extension.

Don't miss it! 👉 https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/f10ec76d-5894-49d0-892c-4cb6f8036a64/

#misinformation #credibility #factchecking #decentralization

🇨🇦 👋 🚨 Hey Canada! Only 3 Days remaining to sign this petition to parliament: 👇

"We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to propose a bill to address the issue of perceived and actual misinformation being presented by MPs to the public, provided that such a bill could be informed by details outlined in the white paper proposed by the ICDR."
👉 Boosts appreciated--thanks
#Cdnpoli #Canpoli Canada
#Misinformation #Disinformation
#Legal

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6679

🇨🇦 👋 🚨 Hey Canada! Only 3 Days remaining to sign this petition to parliament: 👇

"We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to propose a bill to address the issue of perceived and actual misinformation being presented by MPs to the public, provided that such a bill could be informed by details outlined in the white paper proposed by the ICDR."
👉 Boosts appreciated--thanks
#Cdnpoli #Canpoli Canada
#Misinformation #Disinformation
#Legal

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6679

The #CDC has repudiated its past insistence that #vaccines do not cause #autism after decades of fighting #misinformation linking the 2, blindsiding career staff & delighting #AntiVax activists.
The agency’s website on vaccines & autism, updated Wednesday, now makes several #false claims about a connection, echoing longtime rhetoric from “Health” Secy #RFKJr, who has a lengthy history of disparaging vaccines & linking them to autism.

#science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics

@arstechnica
What is the "truth" depends on who is in control of the information. Different admins, different "truths." That is why we need educators, people who empower other people form their OWN reasoned opinions, not just indoctrinate them with dogma. We should always remember that the powers that be silenced even Galileo and that claims of mis/dis-information (heresy) can also be used to silence dissent and good science.

#misinformation #disinformation #dogma #ideology #control #science #reason #truth #biology #chemistry #immunology #psychology

The #CDC has repudiated its past insistence that #vaccines do not cause #autism after decades of fighting #misinformation linking the 2, blindsiding career staff & delighting #AntiVax activists.
The agency’s website on vaccines & autism, updated Wednesday, now makes several #false claims about a connection, echoing longtime rhetoric from “Health” Secy #RFKJr, who has a lengthy history of disparaging vaccines & linking them to autism.

#science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics

New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication in the spotlight:

➡️ Exploring concept creep: Youth’s portrayal of #ADHD on #TikTok

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100489

Read our interview with corresponding author Wietske de Vries:

🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-exploring-concept-creep-youth-s-portrayal-of-adhd-on-ti

#OpenScience #SocialSciences #Behavior #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Misinformation #MentalHealth #Research #PhD

@Em0nM4stodon You haven’t bought enough media, haven’t bought Trumpcoin, don’t own a platform that spreads misinformation and filters out truth, etc.
The narrative gets shaped by those who own information.
#bigtech #misinformation

Police arrested Takashi Tachibana, head of a political group that criticizes NHK, in a libel case that involved the suicide of a Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/japan/politics/anti-nhk-political-group-head-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #takashitachibana #nhk #hyogo #japanesepolice #misinformation

Weighing the evidence on whether people can be inoculated against misinformation, with bonus commentary on the nature of evidence synthesis, how science should work, and the greatest gift psychology ever gave the world (answer: it’s Signal Detection Theory).

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/helping-people-spot-misinformation

#Misinformation #Psychology

Weighing the evidence on whether people can be inoculated against misinformation, with bonus commentary on the nature of evidence synthesis, how science should work, and the greatest gift psychology ever gave the world (answer: it’s Signal Detection Theory).

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/helping-people-spot-misinformation

#Misinformation #Psychology

"Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up. A September report from NewsGuard, which monitors online misinformation, found that “non-response rates fell from 31 percent in August 2024 to 0 percent in August 2025.”" https://popular.info/p/what-happens-when-you-trust-ai-for
#AIEd #AI #Misinformation

Writer Ketan Joshi, in his article for Crickey asks where the demand for #disinformation and #misinformation comes from? He reasons that in accordance with the laws of supply and demand, if there wasn't such a demand, peddlers of lies and confabulations would have given up by now. But they haven't. If anything there's more otf them these days. So many that it's getting hard to avoid the slop.

"A good chunk of the “demand for disinformation” comes from people who’ve been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism, and crave aesthetically plausible justifications for the ball of anger in their chest."

Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/misinformation-disinformation-climate-change/